HBO’s Emmy-Award-winning 24/7 series is back on the ice.
After last season’s successful 24/7 Penguins/Capitals series, the network will now cover the fierce rivalry between the New York Rangers and the Philadelphia Flyers, culminating in their Winter Classic game on Monday, Jan. 2 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.
The first episode of 24/7 Flyers/Rangers will air Wednesday, Dec. 14.
Concussions have been a real problem in the NHL over the last few seasons, and unfortunately that trend has already showed signs of continuing in the 2011-12 season.
The St. Louis Blues, a team that was hit hard by the injury bug last year, is feeling the effects of it once again when they received word that forward Andy McDonald suffered a head injury at the end of the second period of Thursday’s 3-2 loss to the Dallas Stars.
The New York Islanders were hoping to make more of a playoff push last season. But the hope that they could qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2007 was short lived.
Top defenseman Mark Streit and power forward Kyle Okposo both suffered serious shoulder injuries before the puck even dropped in the 2010-11 season. That spelled doom for the Isles as they eventually went on to have their fourth straight losing season.
Much to the chagrin of NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, the New York Islanders have announced that they will be hosting a party for their fans during which they will be re-airing the notorious 9-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins back in February.
In case you need a refresher on what happened that night at Nassau Coliseum, the two teams in that game had 342 combined penalty minutes, including Islanders goon forward Trevor Gillies fighting once early in the game and later elbowing Pens forward Eric Tangradi into oblivion. You may also recall Isles forward Micheal Haley dropping the gloves with Pens goalie Brent Johnson only to get interrupted by Pens forward Eric Godard who came off the bench to stand up for Johnson.
On Monday Nassau County voters voted 57% to 43%against the plan that would have resulted in a new arena, a minor league ballpark and a developmental hub on the property currently occupied by the 39-year-old Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The plan called for property taxes on Nassau County to be raised from 3.5% to 4%.
There is general apathy in the tri-state area for the Islanders who have not won a playoff series since the spring of 1993, have won just six playoff games period in the last 17 years and have finished last in the Atlantic Division in each of the last four seasons.
The New York Islanders knew that they were getting a special player when they drafted Ryan Strome with the fifth overall pick in the 2011 NHL draft.
Here’s why:
The Minnesota Wild are excited about their own prospects, with highlight reel moves from Mikael Granlund and Sam Lofquist:
The future stars of the NHL is a group that seems like it will continue to grow in the 2011-12 season.
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Two prominent American-born hockey players will more than likely announce their respective retirements later on during the week.
All indications point to the New York Islanders Doug Weight and the Detroit Red Wings Brian Rafalski hanging up their skates.
The New York Islanders have called a press conference for Thursday morning at which Doug Weight will make a decision regarding his playing career. Media reports indicate it is expected that the 19-season NHL veteran will announce his retirement. Weight has career totals of 278 goals and 1,033 points in 1,238 regular-season games for the Rangers, Oilers, Blues, Hurricanes, Ducks and Islanders. He added 23 goals and 72 points in 97 postseason games and won the Stanley Cup with Carolina in 2006.
It would almost be comical if the subject matter wasn’t so serious.
For whatever reason, Matt Cooke has a propensity for hitting guys in the head. And maybe if he was doing it a year ago, it would only reaffirm what we already knew: Cooke is a dirty player who plays on the edge.
But this is 2011, otherwise known as The Year of Rule 48 in the NHL. Never has the topic of the safety of the players been so pertinent to the league, which last week’s GM meetings only confirmed. Hits to the head are no longer going to be tolerated by the league, especially when the sole focus of those meetings was preventing player concussions.
Apparently, the New York Islanders Trevor Gillies didn’t take away any lessons from his 9-game suspension he earned during the wild brawl that took place between the Isles and Pittsburgh Penguins on Feb. 11. Gillies was responsible a blindside hit against Penguins foward Eric Tangradi. Gillies proceeded to mug Tangradi and even taunted him when he was down on the ice receiving medical attention.
Some in the NHL believed the nine games was too light, but the truth of the matter was that Gillies simply got caught up in a wild game that got way out of hand.
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